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WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY .. .
and the airline is now a wholly owned L.A.V.subsidiary operated as a separate division.
Services operated are all domestic with the ex-ception of the routes from Caracas and Mara-
caibo to Bogota in Colombia.Head Office: Caracas, Venezuela.
Executives: Col. L. Calderon, president; L.Paul, general manager. .
Fleet: 13 DC-3.
Results for year ended December 31, 1955:152,481 passengers; 2,509 tons of freight and
mail carried; 517,109 ton-miles flown; 300staff. Financial details of operating results not
available.
Linea Aeropostal Venezolana—LAV, was
founded in 1933 when the Venezuelan Govern-ment took over the routes and equipment of
the Cie. Gle. Aeropostale which had begunoperating in Venezuela in 1930. LAV began
flying with Latecoere 28 monoplanes and thefirst new type to be introduced was the EleCtra.
LAV, which took over TACA de Venezuelain 1952, now has more than 16,000 miles of
routes in Madrid, Miami, New York, Panama,Rome and Trinidad.
Head Office: Caracas, Venezuela.Executive: Col. L. Calderon, president.
Fleet: three Viscount, one L-1049G, oneL-1049C, three Constellation, 18 DC-3, two
Martin 2-0-2, C-46.
Results for year ended December 31, 1954:222,554 passengers; 4,481,000 freight ton-km
and 668,000 mail ton-km flown; total ton-km18,875,000; 1,811 staff. Financial details not
available.
Lineas Aereas Costarricenses S.A."LACSA," was founded in 1945 by Pan
American Airways, the Government of CostaRica and Costa Rican private interests. P.A.A.
originally held 36 per cent of the stock but isbelieved now to hold a smaller percentage.
Scheduled operations began in 1946. In 1952LACSA took over TACA de Costa Rica, which
had operated since 1939 as one of the units ofthe TACA system. LACSA operates a network
of internal services based on San Jose and alsoroutes to Panama, Puerto Rico, El Salvador,
Mexico, Cayman Islands, Cuba and Miami.Head Office: San Jose, Costa Rica.
Executives: F. Teran, president; R. E. Smith,general manager; F. Bonilla, asst. general
manager; C. Hoist, operations manager andchief pilot.
Fleet: three DC-3, four Curtiss C-46, twoConvair 340.
Results for year ended December 31, 1955:106,216 passengers; 8,379 tons of freight and
180 tons of mail carried; 4,350,628 ton-milesflown; total costs, £871,105; total revenue,
£955,485; 348 staff.
Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua, S.A. —LANICA, was founded in June 1945 with Pan
American Airways holding 40 per cent of the
company's capital. Internal services werebegun in 1946 with a fleet consisting of two
Boeing 247 aircraft. At present the companyserves nine points in Nicaragua in addition to
its home city, Managua.Head Office: Managua, Nicaragua.
Executives: Col. L. A. Somoza, president; A.Sacasa, vice-president; F. P. Powers, vice-
president: F. Gaitan, treasurer; C. A. Telkria,secretary.
Fleet: six DC-3, one C-46, Ryan Navion.Results for year ended December 31, 1955:
21,852 passengers; 14,459 tons of freight and48 tons of mail carried; 1,426,811 ton-miles
flown; total costs, £271,095; total revenue,£297,636; 189 staff.
Lineas Aereas del Estado—LADE, was
founded in September 1940 as a branch of theArgentine Air Force to operate services to
isolated areas, and which could not be workedas commercial undertakings. After the war
these services were taken over by commercialairlines but LADE is again flying certain
domestic services.
Head Office: Buenos Aires, Argentina.Executives: Names not available.
Fleet: Viking, DC-3, DC-4.Traffic statistics not available.
Linee Aeree Italiane, S.p.A.—LAI, wasformed in 1946 with Italian interests holding
60 per cent of the stock and T.W.A. 40 percent. The first routes, from Rome to Milan,
Palermo and Cagliari, were opened in April1947. In 1952 LAI absorbed Ali Flotte Riunite
thus reducing the number of post-war Italianairlines to two. Transatlantic services were
inaugurated in July 1950. LAI's presentsystem includes domestic and European opera-
tions and routes to Boston, New York, TelAviv, and Teheran.
Head Office: Rome, Italy.Executives: in process of re-organization.
Fleet: two DC-6B, three DC-6, four Convair240, 13 DC-3. On order: 10 Viscount 785,
four L-1649A.
Results for year ended December 31, 1955:227,249 passengers; 3,159,000 freight ton-km
and 1,503,000 mail ton-km flown; total ton-km23,110,000; 1,257 staff. Financial details not
available.
Lloyd Aero Boliviano S.A., was founded byGerman colonists on September 14, 1925, and
opened in that year a route between Cocha-bamba and Santa Cruz. Junkers F13s were
used on these first services. The company wastaken over as the Bolivian national airline in
1941 and Panagra was given a contract toadminister the airline. The government of
Bolivia now holds 50 per cent of the stock ofL.A.B.
The airline operates a network of domesticservices and also routes to Arica in Chile, and
Salta, Argentina.Head Office: Cochabamba, Bolivia.
A new picture from Egypt of one of Misrair's fleet of three hard-working Viscount 739s.
Executives: Edmundo Gonzalez G, president;Rodolfo Galindo Q, general manager.
Fleet: 11 DC-3, two DC-4, six Boeing B-17.Results for year ended December 31, 1956:
171,243 passengers; 23,587,362 kg of freightand 49,812 kg of mail carried; 14,410,577
ton-km flown; total costs (to November),£2,974,577; total revenue (to November),
£410,669; 1,496 staff.
Lloyd Aereo Colombiano is a fairly newcompany and no details of its operations are
available.
Head Office: Bogota, Colombia.Fleet: C-46, DC-3, Cessna 310. On order:
three Viscount 770.
Loftleidir—see Icelandic Airlines.
Loide Aereo Nacional S.A., was establishedin its present form in 1951 by amalgamation
with Linhas Aereas Paulistas and TransportesAereos Bandeirantes. Nearly 10,000 miles of
route are operated within Brazil, many second-class services being flown.
Head Office: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Executives: General J. M. Lima, president;
Col. M. G. Jacques, general and operationsmanager.
Fleet: 21 Curtiss C-46.Results for year ended December 31, 1955:
94,399 passengers; 6,195 tons of freight and159 tons of mail carried; 7,919,972 ton-km
flown; total costs, £3,963,844; total revenue,£4,496,687; more than 700 staff.
Los Angeles Airways, Inc., was incorporatedon May 11th, 1944. The company began a
mail service circuit in the San Fernando Valleyon October 1st, 1947, and thereby became the
first helicopter-scheduled service operator.Two further circuits were opened, one on
October 15th and the other on January 8th,1948. A shuttle service was also established
between the Los Angeles post office roof andthe International Airport. Passenger services
were inaugurated in November 1954 and theseservices now link 11 points with Los Angeles
International Airport—S-55s are used on theseservices and the S-51s operate the mail flights.
Route mileage 296.
Head Office: Los Angeles, Cal., U.S.A.Executives: C. M. Belinn, president; M. J.
Burke, secretary; J. T. Kane, treasurer; R. L.Bromberger, flight operations manager.
Fleet: five S-55, two S-51.Results for year ended December 31, 1956:
43,205 passengers; 109,757 revenue ton-milesflown. Other details not available.
Lufthansa—see Deutsche Lufthansa A.G.
Mackey Airlines, Inc., now operatingscheduled passenger services from St. Peters-
burg, Miami, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale andWest Palm Beach to Nassau in the Bahamas,
was incorporated as Mackey Air Transport in1946. Scheduled operations were approved in
1952 and inaugurated on January 2nd, 1953.Applications have been filed for routes to
Havana and other places in the Caribbean area.Head Office: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A.
Executives: J. C. Mackey, president; L. J.Povey, vice-president; J. H. Popham, secretary;
H. H. Johnson, traffic manager.Fleet: four DC-3, two DC-4, two Goose. On
order: two Fokker Friendship (October andNovember 1957).
Results for year ended December 31, 1955:32,683 passengers; 40 tons of freight carried;
889,029 ton-miles flown; 62 staff. Figures arefor scheduled operations only. Financial details
not available.
MacRobertson Miller Airlines, Ltd., was
brought into being in 1955 by the merger ofMacRobertson-Miller Aviation Co. (Pty.), Ltd.,
and Airlines (W-A.), Ltd. MacRobertson-Miller Aviation was founded in 1927 and was
successor to the Commercial Aviation Co.,founded by Capt. H. C. Miller shortly after
the first war. Airlines (W.A.) was establishedin 1935 and the two companies had extensive
experience in the operation of airlines through-out the length of the west coast of Australia
and the allied inland districts. It is over thisentire area that the new company is now
operating scheduled services.
Head Office: Perth, Western Australia.Executives: C. N. Kleinig, managing director;
H. C. Miller, regional director; J. W. Cameron,